Hal--I have similar situation however my daughter never moved back home from college , after graduating in May 2019. So, though considered to have lived with me for the 5 months, she did not live with me for 7 so really does not meet the residency portion of the dependency standards. She, however, due to receiving lots of scholarship money, and some help from me, even after landing her dream job which began in Sept 19, did not earn and provide at least 50% of her support on her own for the year. Due purely on the lack of coming back home for a couple of months, we thought she would NOT be my dependent for 2019, however, TT does not have a place to report that and keeps saying she is my dependent and is also having her complete the 8615 for the taxable portion of scholarship, which would not apply if she is independent (would just be part of wages as SCH, still taxable). Is there something else we should be reporting in TT or are we incorrect in the 7 months residency? Also, I do not want to falsely claim her since I would get tax benefits, if she is in fact not my dependent this year. She lived 5 months away for school, then 7 months away, did not support 50% herself, (though this may be questionable, she had a lot of money in savings that helped her this past year which some came from previous year job but MOST came from taxable scholarship proceeds from previous tax year), she earned in 2019 more than 9k on her own. So is she my qualifying child or is she independent, and if so, how can convey that to turbo tax and be correct? Thank you
